Sister Carrie (Barnes & Noble Classics S - Theodore Dreiser [226]
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This song by Harry Dillon and Nat Mann was published in 1895.
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B. Altman’s and Lord & Taylor’s were expensive clothing stores that catered to a wealthy clientele.
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E. H. Sothern (1859-1933) was a much-lionized actor who won plaudits for his work in such plays as Lord Chumley. This is the kind of flimsy theatrical fare the public devoured and Dreiser/Ames debunked.
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Sentimental romance by Linn Boyd Porter, published in 1891, that sold more than 500,000 copies in three years.
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The Panic of 1893 matched the Great Depression of the 1930s in violent labor unrest and widespread misery. Unemployment stayed above 10 percent for more than five years.
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Fanny Davenport (1850-1898) was a leading lady of Augustin Daly’s company before she formed her own. He managed the Fifth Avenue Theatre and in 1879 opened Daly’s Theater, whose high-quality productions were an oasis in the overall dramatic desert.
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Manhattan’s wholesale food district near the Hudson River just below Fourteenth Street. While a number of meat-packing companies still operate along its cobble-stone streets, chic shops and galleries and trendy clubs and restaurants have transformed it into a fashionable neighborhood.
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The fame of this beloved French actress (1844-1923), one of the few women to play the lead in Hamlet, was international; she regularly toured America.
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The New York Clipper, a trade newspaper of the 1890s, covered the theatrical world.
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Augustin Daly’s business manager Richard Dorney served as a “gatekeeper” who protected his boss’s time and privacy.
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The premier theater for musicals, located in Times Square. Lillian Russell starred there.
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The heroine of the Abbé Prevost’s novel Manon Lescaut (1731) was an innocent country girl who foregoes her true love for material comforts; she ends up as a classy prostitute in Paris. Massenet and Puccini wrote operas based on the novel.
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Large theater that produced musicals.
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The most prominent theatrical photographer of his day, Napolean Sarony launched a studio on Broadway in 1866.
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Bellevue Hospital, on First Avenue and Twenty-sixth Street, has provided medical care for the poor and homeless since its founding in 1736.
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The strings of electric lights gave Broadway its famous nickname: the “Great White Way.”
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Fleischmann’s Vienna Model Bakery was a well-known Broadway café of the 1890s owned by Louis Fleischmann, a champion of the unemployed who created the first “bread line.”
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Broadway above Columbus Circle (at Fifty-ninth Street) was known as the Boulevard.
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This notorious New York prison sits on the banks of the Hudson River 30 miles north of New York City. The slang term “sent up the river,” meaning sent to prison, originated with Sing Sing.
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A potter’s field is a graveyard for the poor, unknown, and criminals. In the 1890s unidentified persons were buried on Hart’s Island, in Long Island Sound.